Meeting to focus on Programmatic Agreement

11:19 AM,
May 12, 2014

Chant: In this March 2011 file photo, Guam State Historic Preservation Officer Lynda Aguon, left, and Historic Preservation Specialist Joe Garrido, right, perform a chant at the Ylig bridge project site, where construction workers discovered ancestral remains. Lawmakers this morning are scheduled to hold a round-table meeting on a federal "programmatic agreement" that states how ancestral remains and other artifacts will be handled if unearthed during construction projects for the military buildup. Masako Watanabe/Pacific Daily News/mwatanabe@guampdn.com

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Jerick Sablan
Pacific Daily News

Residents can learn more about the military buildup during a round-table meeting today at the Legislature.

Sen. Ben Pangelinan, D-Barrigada, will hold a round-table meeting at 9 a.m. today at the Guam Legislature's public hearing room and has invited Lynda Aguon, the Guam State Historic Preservation Officer, to provide a status update on the Programmatic Agreement.

It states how the military will handle any artifact unearthed during the pending military buildup. Part of the agreement also deals with public access to federally controlled land.Satisfies requirements ...